Your editorial rightly warns that malaria could be the “canary in the coalmine” for how quickly and severely decades of global health progress might unravel due to the scrapping of USAID and wavering commitment from countries such as the UK (Editorial, 27 October).
Beyond foreshadowing long-term impacts on HIV and tuberculosis, malaria likely signals what’s ahead for a lower-profile but similarly devastating group of pathogens – the “neglected tropical diseases” (NTDs).
